Model Airplanes

Our chariot, EW-85748, on the ground at Minsk National Airport – Photo : Bernie Leighton | AirlineReporter

The Tupelov Tu-154 is a classic airliner that many AvGeeks admire, but unfortunately it will no longer be able to fly with-in continental Europe. I was lucky enough to snag a seat on the last flight, a Tu-154M on Belavia to Misk (MSQ).

You see, many in Europe were getting upset with the rare Soloviev D-30 engine gracing their passenger airports. The noise and the environmental impact did not make many friends. It is too bad, because it’s not like the 737-800 is replacing the Tu-154M on a one-to-one basis with every airline operating them at a speed comparable to that of light anyway. Why even bother other than to make a point?

My friend, who happens to divide his time between Paris and Minsk, runs an aviation enthusiast tour company and asked if I wanted to join a group to give the Tu-154 a send-off from Europe. I packed my things and ended up in Geneva (GVA) on May 29th, 2015.

The flight’s flight engineer had stumbled into instant celebrity. He seemed to enjoy it – Photo: Bernie Leighton | AirlineReporter

After

Article source: http://www.airlinereporter.com/2015/06/end-tupolev-tu-154-continental-europe/

The Texas Tech University professor of chemistry and biochemistry said that quantum mechanics is a strange realm of reality. Particles at this atomic and subatomic level can appear to be in two places at once. Because the activity of these particles is so iffy, scientists can only describe what’s happening mathematically by “drawing” the tiny landscape as a wave of probability.

Chemists like Poirier draw these landscapes to better understand chemical reactions. Despite the “uncertainty” of particle location, quantum wave mechanics allows scientists to make precise predictions. The rules for doing so are well established. At least, they were until Poirier’s recent “eureka” moment when he found a completely new way to draw quantum landscapes. Instead of waves, his medium became parallel universes.

Though his theory, called Many Interacting Worlds, sounds like science fiction, it holds up mathematically.

Originally published in 2010, it has led to a number of invited presentations, peer-reviewed journal articles and a recent invited commentary in the premier physics journal Physical Review.

“This has gotten a lot of attention in the foundational mechanics community as well as the popular press,” Poirier said. “At a symposium in Vienna in 2013, standing five feet away from a famous Nobel Laureate in physics, I gave my presentation on this work fully expecting criticism. I was surprised when I received none. Also, I was happy to see that I didn’t have anything obviously wrong with my mathematics.”

In his theory, Poirier postulates that small particles from many worlds seep

Article source: http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2015/06/parallel-universes-are-they-revealed-at-the-quantum-level.html

Budget phones are all over the market these days and that’s because we’ve finally hit a period of diminishing returns for most customers.  The days of how many cores a phone has, what GHz the processor is running at and other similar specs aren’t at the forefront of most people’s minds anymore, and that’s simply because hardware and software has finally met a pace that’s acceptable in most situations.  Every now and then a special budget device comes to market though, one that tends to exceed most expectations about daily usability when comparing other phones of a similar price.  Lenovo’s latest budget-minded phone, the K3 Note (K50-t5), seems to fit right in that mark.  Let’s find out exactly what Lenovo has done and how your experience might carry out.

Specs

It should come as no surprise that a budget-minded phone from China is packing the latest 64-bit MediaTek processor, but what’s not immediately obvious is just how incredibly blazing fast it is until you use it.  The rest of the specs are equally impressive, blowing most phones in this price range right out of the water.

• 5.5 inch 1080p IPS display
• MediaTek MT6752 1.7GHz Octa-core 64-bit Cortex-A53 Processor
• Mali-T760 GPU
• 2GB of RAM
• 16GB internal storage, microSD card support
• 3,000 mAh Li-Ion battery (removable)
• Android 5.0 Lollipop
• 13MP rear-facing camera, Dual-LED flash, f/2.0 Lens
• 5MP front-facing camera
• 76.2mm wide x 152.6mm tall x 8.0mm thick
• 146g

Display

At this price range

Article source: http://www.androidheadlines.com/2015/06/featured-review-lenovo-k3-note-k50-t5-budget-purpose.html